[mythtv-users] Cable Box and Video Capture Card

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/8/06, yan seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> > You're probably going to want a PVR-250 or PVR-150, but not for the
> > reason you think.  You'll probably want it so that you get the
> > hardware MPEG-2 compression.   The PVR cards won't change channels on
> > the cable box, though;  you'll need an IR blaster or serial connection
> > to accomplish that.
>
>
> I thought the PVR150 used software compression?  Does it use hardware?
> The 250 uses hardware, right?

all the Hauppauge PVR- cards use hardware compression.

cweisiger,
What you might want to do is get a PVR-500, use one of its built in
tuners and one of the svideo/component inputs for the cable box, you'd
then have both devices on one PCI slot.

--
Steve